Yulianna Avdeeva, Piano
Performers
Yulianna Avdeeva, Piano
Program
CHOPIN Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
CHOPIN Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45
CHOPIN Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp Minor
CHOPIN Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22
LISZT Bagatelle ohne Tonart
LISZT Unstern! Sinistre, disastro
LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor
Encores:
CHOPIN Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42
LISZT Rigoletto, Concert Paraphrase for Piano
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.Listen to Selected Works
At a Glance
CHOPIN Selected Works
Chopin revolutionized piano music in dozens of mazurkas, nocturnes, impromptus, and other solo pieces that imbued the superficial brilliance of the salon style with unprecedented poetic depth. No less a virtuoso than Felix Mendelssohn hailed his Polish-born contemporary as “a second Paganini, doing entirely new things, and all sorts of impossibilities which one never thought could be done.” Robert Schumann, himself a master of keyboard character pieces, extolled Chopin’s genius, about which he wrote, “imagination and technique share dominion side by side.”
LISZT Bagatelle ohne Tonart; Unstern! Sinistre, disastro
Like Chopin, Liszt was a seminal figure in the Romantic movement, best known for his dazzlingly virtuosic and often richly poetic piano music. These two late pieces show the Hungarian composer-pianist at his most harmonically daring and his most grimly morbid.
LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor
Just as Liszt claimed to have “transcended” the boundaries of traditional pianistic technique, so his visionary music prefigured many of the major compositional developments of the 20th century. This massive single-movement sonata illustrates the technique of thematic transformation that he also employed in his many symphonic poems.